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PTFA Quiz Night
The PTFA Quiz Night was well attended and saw a mix of parents, friends of the school and teachers, battle out to be champion. Recent winners the formidable Fradley Bears and the less formidable Headteacher’s Team were prepared to do battle but both were out-scored by Spaced Out who won […]
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KS3 Reading Rewards Winners
Over 50 KS3 students have been involved in our Reading Challenge and they have been working toward Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards for their reading. The Silver winners (see photograph) all got a ‘Magic Lunch Pass’ which entitled them to get to the front of the dinner queue for a […]
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Mary Poppins Auditions
The KS3 Show this summer will be ‘Mary Poppins’ and the auditions for the roles are scheduled as follows: Wednesday 4 March – Auditions for Minor Roles 3.05-4.00pm in the Theatre Wednesday 4 March – Auditions for Major Roles 3.05-5.00pm in the Theatre Friday 6 March – Call Back Auditions […]
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Battle of the Bands
The annual ‘Battle of the Bands’ evening took us back to the 1990s this year and a busy theatre was treated to music taking many parents back to the days when they were footloose and fancy free. There was a string of fantastic acts that came out and whilst there […]
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U13 Boys Hockey Tournament
Despite a cold and windy night, The Friary boys triumped in a friendly hockey tournament with Lichfield Cathedral School. The Friary played against both A & B teams and even battled each other in a Friary v Friary showdown with the B team winning the tournament overall. The tournament saw […]
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Autism Training
As part of our on-going work in professional training with staff, we welcomed Michael Burke, a specialist working for Autism Outreach, into school to deliver a modular training session about the challenges students with ASD face in education and the various strategies available to support them. A large audience of […]
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E-Safety – Tik Tok & Parental Controls
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company. It is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. It is very popular with teenagers and it certainly one we know is used by students at The Friary. However, the lack of parent controls has […]
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Adolescent Vaccination Programme – Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR)
We have been contacted by the NHS School Age Immunisation Team to alert us to the rapid increase of measles and mumps cases resulting in the loss of UK measles elimination status. In 2018 Public Health England (PHE) reported there was a marked increase in the number of confirmed measles […]
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St Giles Hospice Visit Johnson House
Our final House Week of the year sees Johnson House working to raise funds for St Giles Hospice and were thrilled to welcome Beth in from the St Giles’ fund-raising team. Beth met with the whole House in their assembly and outlined the role of the hospice in providing critical […]
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Above & Beyond for Midland Air Ambulance
Seward House have built a wonderful relationship with Midland Air Ambulance and their recent House Week raised vital funds for an organisation so important to our local community. Even so, we were very impressed to see that Holly Rolfe (Y11), decided to busk in Lichfield over the recent half-term and […]
